Dominican Republic will have Strategic Development Plan

The country is doomed to prepare for August - September of this year a development proposal with the backing of businessmen, political parties, workers and civil society, and should be submitted to Congress next year.

This was stated yesterday by the secretary of Economy, Planning and Development, Juan Temístocles Montás, who said the nation is bound by law to define a development strategy for the next ten years. He recalled that the law creating the National System of Planning and Investment established that by June of next year the Dominican Government must submit to Congress a national development strategy, which would establish the direction the country for the next 10 to 20 years.

He explained that as this is a proposal that covers more than one presidential term, it leaves open the possibility it will eventually be able to go modifying some of the elements of the Strategic Plan Development. He added that the idea is to go breaking with the pattern of America's immediately from today to tomorrow and take into account where it should go towards the country.

She complained that always talks about the development of China, but there the political class are thinking about what will be his nation in the next 25 years, and have their goals set. For years, the Dominican business sector, politicians and workers have advocated an agenda for national development. Montás explained that the proposed strategic what we seek is that "we think in strategic terms a bit to where it should go the Dominican Republic in the next ten years."

He who on Monday presented a book in the National Palace on Dominican Republic 20-30 ", as well as a series of statistics since 1990 to date, which will be largely part of the elements to take into account in strategic decisions. Those statistics include a series of information related to the attitude of Dominicans respect the democratic process in the Dominican Republic. It also is awaiting more documents prepared by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on key aspects of economic affairs of the Dominican Republic.